Hi again. Well this is chapter five. Please please please review!

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They safely arrived at the hideout. The first thing that Claire and Bentley did was start arguing.

"You should watch were you're going!" Claire yelled.

"Well don't let your tail wag where it pleases!" Bentley said, sternly.

"You can't tell me what to do!" Claire looked at her tail. "Oh, my poor tail. I better put some bandages on it."

"Oh please! You're being way too dramatic!"

"Four eyes!"

"Guys stop!" Sly yelled but they did not seem to have heard him.

"You dumb raccoon! I bet you couldn't steal a jewel if it was on the floor in front of you! Why don't you go back to your dilapidated cabin?"

Claire stormed off to her room and Sly noticed that she looked hurt before slamming the door behind her. He turned to Bentley, furious.

"How could you!" he yelled.

"It's the truth." Bentley said not looking away from the spot Claire had been.

"You insult my family, you insult me!" Sly had an urge to hurt Bentley as much as he could, but controlled that urge. Instead, he argued. "I thought we were better friends than this!"

"We are!"

"You have a fine way of showing it!" Sly went to go look for Claire. He knocked on her bedroom door.

"Hello? Claire?" he went inside and saw that she was not there.

"Oh no! Claire? Claire!" Murray heard Sly yelling and rushed upstairs.

"Huh? What's wrong? Where's Claire?"

"She's gone!"

"What do we do?"

"You stay here just in case she comes back and I'll go look for her."

"Ok."

Sly quickly went downstairs and grabbed his cane. He bumped into Bentley on the way out the door.

"Thanks a lot Bentley! You were so mean to Claire that she ran away!" Sly said scowling at Bentley. Bentley remained silent but did not seem guilty. Sly ignored him and went out the door to search for Claire. It was really dangerous at night for someone her age to be wandering around. "She couldn't have gotten far." Sly thought.

Meanwhile, Claire was walking alone in a dark alley. She really didn't care where she was going. She just kept her head down. She thought about what Bentley had said her. The alley was so dark that the only source of light was the full moon. The only thing she brought was her bag which was hanging around her waist.

"What are you doing around here all alone, kid?" said a voice behind her. She turned around and saw a cloaked figure. She couldn't really tell what sort of animal it was.

"That is none of your business." she answered coldly.

"I really should teach you some manners. Didn't your parents teach you?" The cloaked figure pulled out a long knife. "Now, you should be nicer to me. Wouldn't want to ruin your face."

Claire gulped. She was petrified. She had no weapons to protect herself, she really had no experience in fighting because she had never found it necessary to fight when she was on her own heists. They animal got closer and Claire noticed it was a leopard.

"I'll give you one chance to apologize for your rudeness, kid." he said.

"I'm s-sorry." Claire stuttered, looking at the knife.

"Hmmmmmm. Sorry isn't good enough."

"But you said that if I apologized you wouldn't hurt me!"

"Shut up! Who knows? I might let you leave our alley wounded than actually killing you."

Claire looked around. "Our?"

"You didn't think I would be here alone like you, did you?" Suddenly eight other animals appeared. Claire was outnumbered and the leopard smirked. He threw his knife at Claire but she tried dodging it. She dodged it enough so it would stab her in the face but it wounded her shoulder as it flew by. Injured, she tried to run away but the animals held her back and threw her to the ground. She screamed in pain and began to cry. She had landed on her injured arm. They then threw her at the wall and she slowly slid down. "Just kill me already so the pain could stop!" she thought. She was now lying on the floor, bleeding. She closed her eyes and heard the animals laugh.

"Claire!" she heard someone yell. She opened her eyes and saw it was Sly. Everything was getting blurry. Sly ran and dropped to his knees next to her. "Keep away from her!" he yelled at the animals.

"Make us!" the leopard answered.

"As you wish." Sly said. They all ran toward Sly but he knocked them all out one by one with his cane until the leopard was left alone.

"Well, well, well. It's the famous Sly Cooper. I didn't recognize you there, Cooper."

"Shut up! How dare you lay a paw on my sister!"

"Your sister? Aw how cute. You have a baby sister. Besides, I didn't a lay paw. I used a knife." The leopard looked at his knife. "And you shall suffer, as well." He tried stabbing Sly but missed. He pulled out another knife and tried again but he kept missing because Sly hit the knives with his cane every time he tried stabbing him. Sly then hit the knives so hard that they flew out of the leopard's paws. They leopard didn't give up. He then tried punching Sly until Sly punched him in the stomach and hit him on the head with his cane.

Once he saw that everyone was unconscious including the leopard, he ran toward Claire and tried to wake her up.

"Claire! Are you alright? What did they do to you?" He saw that her sweater was stained with blood. She was shaking and crying a lot.

"Sly!" She was now crying on Sly's shoulder. "They were going to k-kill me. I c-couldn't do anything. If y-you hadn't shown up, I would be d-dead! Please don't let them hurt me again, Sly! Please!" She was hugging him tightly and wasn't letting go. She was really afraid.

"Don't worry. They won't hurt you ever again, because now they know who they're messing with."

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